"pyotr filipivich" wrote in message
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John B. Slocomb on Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:07:19
+0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 05:53:05 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:57:03 -0700, Gunner Asch

wrote:
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:02:12 -0700, pyotr filipivich
wrote:
John B. Slocomb on Wed, 27 Aug 2014
08:31:17

I understand as well, that a lot of the Roman Roads were ...
occupational deployments of the Legion to keep them busy and out of
trouble. The Roman Road was in many senses a wall laying on the on
the ground.
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pyotr filipivich

During WW1 British Army practice was to rotate troops between guarding
the trenches and support or construction duty behind them. Much of the
duty was digging, including laying turf-covered hidden railroad tracks
that allowed heavy guns to be brought up and fired from positions
unknown to enemy artillery plotters at night and then moved back to
safety before dawn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatigue_duty
-jsw